Spoon “Transference” Track By Track

I recently threw down some (many) words for the popular and very well respected Liverpool based music blog getintothis concerning Spoon’s new album. You can read the track-by-track review here , and then sample a couple of my highlights below. My review was positive, but I’ll leave the conclusion about the album open to you – “Transference” is, if nothing else, interesting for the way in which it has split opinion. Some call it the sound of a band disinterested even with themselves, whilst many believe it to be yet another solid album from experimental indie rock’s most consistent providers; what do you think?

Words: Phil. This entry was posted on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 6:47 pm and is filed under album reviews. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Spoon “Transference” Track By Track”

LykkeJordan Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Nice post… I think everyone is being really hard on this album just because Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was amazing. In some months times people will look back and realise what an album it is.

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January 24th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
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Hi NME,

On behalf of Merge Records and Spoon, we would kindly ask you not to post copies of “Transference” on your site (or any non-preview tracks from Spoon’s new album – street date 18th Jan UK /19th Jan US).

We do appreciate that you are fans of / are promoting Spoon, but the label and artist would greatly appreciate your co-operation in removing your links to the pirate files in question.

Thank you for respecting the artist’s and label’s wishes and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks, then a full length version of “Written in Reverse” is available for fans and bloggers to post / host / share etc at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120830261&ps=bb2 … .. for further details of the new album, on-line promotions, videos and 2010 shows, check-out the band’s official site at http://www.spoontheband.com and keep an eye on official sources for details of further Spoon news, preview material and on-line promotions.

As a special, goodwill gesture to fans and bloggers, an exclusive preview stream of the full album is now available via the band’s site and as part of NPR Music’s Exclusive First Listen series at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122279793 … .. this is for hyper-linking ONLY and for streaming by fans directly off the band’s official site and NPR, so please reciprocate this goodwill gesture by NOT ripping or embedding these files.

As you will appreciate, this post is written on a without prejudice basis and, as such, all of our clients’ accumulated, worldwide rights and remedies remain strictly reserved : please excuse this required formality.

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Chris SH Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Gotta agree with the guy above me. Transference sure takes a bit longer than past records to get under your skin, but when it does…!

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Public Death Records Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I only wanted to drop you a short note to inform you that I really enjoy your articles. Thanks! Keep on the good work

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